When we published our 2013 book on Indo-Pacific defense, entitled Rebuilding American Military Power in the Pacific: A 21st-Century Strategy, we highlighted the strategic geometry facing the challenge of operating U.S. forces in the Pacific. We highlighted the challenge by crafting the graphic above. The U.S. faces a tyranny of distance in dealing with the … Continue reading The United States and Indo-Pacific Defense Operations: Adding Prompt Strike to the “Fight Tonight Force”